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Wary No 10 vets Boris’s speeches

BORIS JOHNSON is in talks with a nervous Downing Street about what he can say
at the Tory party conference amid fears that he will use his whirlwind visit
to upstage David Cameron.

The London mayor begins his conference appearances tomorrow evening in
Birmingham with an address to 800 activists entitled “Boris Johnson’s 2012 —
re-elected and Olympotastic”.

Although Johnson denies leadership ambitions, he is seen by activists as one
of the few Tory success stories of the year, winning a second term as mayor
and hogging much of the credit for the successful staging of the Olympics.
An insider said the rally would be a “tub-thumping occasion, motivate the
troops, that kind of thing”.

From there, Johnson is expected to move on to a meeting of London
Conservatives, leaving just before the prime minister arrives at the same
event. “It will be a busy evening,” the insider said. “If their